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Abdul’s victory was most decisive bc that is where the battle with the lobby was joined. They didn’t drop a hundred million against Talarico. They didn’t pull out all the stops against him, they chose to fight Abdul. Theirs is a historic defeat. And it doubles up as the decisive argument against centrist selloutism.
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ICE HSI agent Kent Blacklidge who racially profiled and tackled US citizen Leo Venegas while trespassing at his worksite (the first of Leo's three illegal detainments) was just arrested for rape and child sex crimes. The agent's duties had included child sex investigations.
ICE wrestled Alabama worker to the ground & detain him for hours—he is a U.S. citizen.
Young man was begging & shouting, "I am a U.S. citizen"—but that didn't stop ICE agents from dragging him off to a detention center.
Not following due process hurts us all—and our economy.
His family said that ICE agents did release him after he was finally given the opportunity to prove he was a U.S. citizen—but only after many hours.
This construction site in Foley, Alabama was forced to shut down for at least the day. How many other businesses were affected?
#DemVoice1 #wtpBLUE #DemsUnited
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Trump has spent a decade purging conservatism—constitutional, economic, and even social (in the deepest sense of humility and respect for others)—from the Republican Party.
We should take solace in this absolute defeat because it’s a real chance to rebuild American conservatism.
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Replying to @chigrl
My younger two sons are going into the funeral services industry.
There's a shortage in Ohio & nationwide
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This would be a start, but…
1) It’s pennies on the dollar. We’ve spent over $50 billion on the War with Iran on behalf of Israel.
2) The same American taxpayer funds will just flow through as military assistance/coordination instead of as a separate line item in the appropriations bills.
3) They spent $30 million against me because I was the only remaining Republican to oppose this foreign aid. You’d have to be a fool to think they’re going to end this. It’s a desperate Election Day lie.
BREAKING: President Trump says the U.S. will end roughly $4 billion in annual aid to Israel by the end of the year, revealing that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to the decision.
“Because they don’t need it,” Trump said during an exclusive interview on @foxandfriends, describing Israel as a thriving country that no longer requires American financial assistance.
Trump also said Netanyahu raised the idea of ending the aid himself. He emphasized that Israel remains one of America’s most reliable allies as the two countries prepare for a major shift in their financial relationship.
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这两天 AI 圈发生了一件特别打脸的事,但整个行业几乎都在装哑巴:一个只有 1.09 亿参数的小模型,在对真实世界的理解上,居然硬生生干翻了 720 亿参数的巨无霸。
对,你没看错,体型足足小了 660 倍。
这几年的大厂全都魔怔了一样,信奉“大力出奇迹”。大家从 2024 年起就默认了一套逻辑:只要往死里堆显卡、喂够海量的文字和图片,模型变大之后自然就懂世界了。
只有 Yann LeCun 一直梗着脖子唱反调,说光靠堆规模根本没戏。因为跟 Meta 赌的方向完全相反,他去年 11 月干脆拍拍屁股走人,跑去巴黎自己拉队伍单干。
结果就在上周四,他联手 Randall Balestriero 直接把实锤证据甩在了所有人脸上。
你说凭什么?硅谷烧了上千亿美金的算力信仰,怎么就被一个几百倍小的模型给掀了桌子?
给不太了解底层训练逻辑的朋友拆解一下这组数字有多吓人。
不是小一两倍,是整整小了 660 倍。而且为了达到同样的理解深度,新方法只喂了 2160 万个样本就通关了,而现在全世界所有聊天机器人都在用的“预测下一个词”,足足吞了 9 亿个样本才勉强追上。
这还没完。为什么算力堆成山,效率反而被按在地上摩擦?
你以为是之前喂的数据还不够多,其实从根子上就喂错了东西,这就是我常说的盲人摸象式暴力。
你可以这么理解,这就好比教一个小孩认识什么是“苹果”。LeCun 验证的法子,是一手拿张苹果的照片,一手拿着描述这张照片的句子,把“同一件事的两种视角”绑在一起给他看,小孩看几眼就彻底通透了。
而现在主流大模型干的事,是从同一篇长文章里随便抠出两段话,逼着它顺着上句猜下句。
那两段话根本不是同一件事的不同切面,硬凑在一起死记硬背,不仅学得极其缓慢,还贼烧钱。
不是模型的脑容量不够大,而是死记硬背的文字接龙永远拼不出真实的世界。
这种顶级科学家的路线之争,咱们看个热闹也就算了。
但有个事吧,我翻来覆去还是想多说两句。就是“方向比蛮力重要”这件事,到底给我们敲了什么警钟。
因为我自己每天都在高强度用各种大模型写代码、理逻辑,经常遇到那种参数量吓死人、但一碰到真实物理常识就胡说八道的时刻。
无论是巨头训模型还是我们自己折腾项目,绝不迷信盲目堆量的算力迷信。先把底层的配对逻辑跑通,用巧劲去破蛮力的局,至于巴黎那间新实验室接下来还会憋出什么大招,我们一起往下看。
Yann LeCun was right & nobody in this industry wants to say it out loud.
109 million parameters beat 72 billion.
He has spent years saying scale is not the thing that makes a model understand the world. Meta bet the other way. He left in November and started his own lab in Paris.
Last Thursday he published the proof.
The theory everyone has been running on since 2024 is that if you train models big enough, on text, on images, on sound, they all end up with the same picture of reality inside them. Size does it. Nobody ever proved that part.
Randall Balestriero and LeCun proved it. And the proof says size was never doing the work.
What does the work is which two things you show a model together.
A photo and the caption of that photo are two views of one thing. Models trained on pairs like that get there fast.
Two paragraphs pulled from the same document are not two views of one thing. Models trained on those get there slowly and expensively.
Next word prediction is the second kind. That is what every chatbot in the world runs on.
In their tests the first method reached the same understanding after 21.6 million examples. Next word prediction needed 900 million.
And a 109 million parameter text model ended up closer to an image model's view of the world than a 72 billion parameter language model was.
660 times smaller.
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Dear MAGA, since you're always asking me, "What laws has Trump violated. Be specific."
HERE IS A COMPREHENSIVE LIST
1) The Principle of Non-refoulement is an international law prohibiting a state from returning a person to a place where they would face a real risk of persecution, torture, or other serious harm.
SEE - 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, which the U.S ratified in 1968.
2) The Convention Against Torture (CAT) prohibits the removal of any person to a country where they would more likely than not be subjected to torture.
Signed by the U.S.: April 18, 1988
Ratified by the U.S.: October 21, 1994
Enforced in the U.S.: November 20, 1994
3) The Refugee Act of 1980 prohibits the return of a refugee to a country where their life or freedom would be threatened.
4) INA § 241(b)(3) states that the U.S. cannot remove an alien to a country if it's determines that the alien's life or freedom would be threatened in that country.
5) Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 (FARRA) - codified 8 U.S.C. § 1231 - states the U.S can NOT expel, extradite, or otherwise effect the involuntary return of any person to a country in which there are substantial grounds for believing the person would be in danger of being subjected to torture.
6) Article I, Section 4, Clause 1 (Election Clause) by attempting to control federal elections and intimidate State and election officials.
7) Article I, Section 8 - Congress' authority to create and/or abolish government agencies/offices - by creating DOGE via Executive Order and by dismantling government agencies WITHOUT Congressional approval or involvement.
8) Article I, Section 9 , Clause 8 - the Emoluments Clause - prohibits any person holding a government office from accepting any present, emolument , office, or title from any "King, Prince, or foreign State ," without congressional consent.
9) 1st Amendment free speech clause by silencing the scientific community - via Executive Order - and by trying to silence the media by kicking out certain media from the press room and by filing frivolous lawsuits.
10) 5th Amendment for violating due process rights of immigrants. Which is confirmed by the U.S Supreme Court in two separate rulings.
11) 10th Amendment by sending ICE agents into sanctuary cities.
Under Printz v. United State, the Federal government "may neither issue directives requiring the States to address particular problems, nor command the States’ officers, or those of their political subdivisions, to administer or enforce a federal regulatory program." — thus, protecting sanctuary cities.
12) 14th Amendment Section 1 - the birthright citizenship clause - by signing an Executive Order attempting to end the protections of birthright citizenship.
13) 5 USC § 403 by illegally firing 18 Inspectors General's from the Defense Department, State Department, Health and Human Services Department and the Department of Labor.
14) 8 USC § 1373, the courts have ruled that this law cannot compel local law enforcement to act as immigration agents.
15) 18 U.S.C. § 4 – Misprision of Felony, by "having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony" in regards to covering up the Epstein files.
16) 18 U.S. Code § 401 for blatantly ignoring and disobeying an immigration Court ruling, a U.S. District Court ruling, and the U.S. Supreme Court ruling. @realDonaldTrump and this regime have blatantly defied, disobeyed, and ignored FIVE federal court orders, thus far.
17) 18 U.S.C. § 1505 by "willfully withholds, misrepresents, removes from any place, conceals, covers up, destroys, mutilates, alters, or by other means falsifies any documentary material" in regards to the Epstein files.
18) The Posse Comitatus Act by deploying active military armed forces on U.S. soil.
19) The War Powers Resolution Act by NOT consulting with Congress nor meeting the threshold in order to bomb Iran without consulting Congress.
This list does NOT include violations of international laws.
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Remember in Schindler's List when the Nazi commander uses a sniper rifle to shoot prisoners in the Concentration Camp.
This is a video of Israel using machine guns from a tank to shoot prisoners in a Concentration Camp.
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An ICE agent intentionally ran over a man. The agent gets out as the victim wails in agony and casually flips the man's injured leg out of his way so he can handcuff him. Agent admits on camera that he hit him, but ICE still publicly lied, blaming the man
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This is Atara, a 19-year-old American from Texas who moved to Israel six years ago. She now lives as a settler in the occupied West Bank and calls for all Palestinians to be expelled from Gaza or killed.
Journalist:: “Where should the Palestinians in Gaza go?”
Atara: “Any of the Arab countries. I don’t care. Except Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. Because those are ours. Or we’ll kill them.”
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Stunning piece about yet another old-guard, high-level, billionaire supporter of Israel who has lost faith in it - and in Netanyahu.
"Ronald Lauder has never lived in Israel. But in the past year the Jewish billionaire, who serves as president of the World Jewish Congress, has given up his remaining properties in the country, a sign of the deep shift in his views of its future. A deep sense of disgust appears on his face as he recounts this. "I've sold my apartment in Tel Aviv, I gave my home in Be'er Sheva to the Jewish National Fund, of which I'm also the chairman. I basically cut my ties there. Because it has become so…," Lauder grimaces, making a gesture of vomiting.
He goes on to blame Israel for failing to make peace, explaining that Israel actually didn't want peace:
"I realized at the end of the day that Israel really didn't want peace, but they wanted dominance. And I walked away from it."
"You've lost the Democratic Party, and you're losing the Republican Party. And it's all because of foolishness on your part. I want to tell Israelis, 'Shame on you! Shame on all of you. Your fathers and your grandfathers fought for this place, and you're losing it because of foolishness. Period.'"
I think this reflects the view of many who fought to establish Israel/supported its creation, but at the same time believed in peace. Perhaps an unjust peace, clearly a peace on Israel's terms - but a peace nonetheless.
But Israel has long swapped dominance and control for peace, and it has taken quite some time for many of its original supporters and champions to realize it - and admit to themselves the direction Israel actually is going in.
haaretz.com/israel-news/elec…
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Le commandant de réserve israélien, Avdar Shailovski, a rédigé un article — publié sur sa page Facebook — dans lequel il relate sa désertion de l'armée israélienne et son émigration d'Israël vers la Pologne, la terre de ses ancêtres.
L'article est intitulé : « Je ne peux plus supporter le silence ».
Voici le texte intégral de l'article :
Je suis Avdar Shailovski, le commandant qui a déserté l'armée israélienne. Je déclare, en pleine possession de mes facultés mentales, avoir quitté l'armée israélienne car je ne pouvais plus supporter de rester un témoin silencieux — trahissant ainsi ma propre humanité — face à tous les crimes dont j'ai été témoin durant les cinq années que j'ai passées au sein de cette armée.
Les événements auxquels j'ai assisté m'étouffent ; il faut que je vous les raconte.
Je pourrais mourir à tout instant, tant mon chagrin est immense. C'est pourquoi je me dois de contribuer à faire éclater la vérité, dans l'espoir d'alléger le poids de ma culpabilité. Peut-être Dieu atténuera-t-Il le tourment qui m'attend, compte tenu de l'horreur des actes que j'ai commis, simplement parce que je faisais partie des rangs de l'armée israélienne.
Puis, j'ai reçu un signe : « Abandonne tout et va-t'en. »
Merci, mon Dieu, de m'avoir guidé.
Dès que l'avion de la compagnie israélienne El Al a atterri à l'aéroport de Varsovie, je me suis senti en sécurité, loin de cette terre d'Israël qui ne signifie plus rien pour moi.
On nous a enseigné que c'était la terre promise par Dieu ; or, c'est le plus grand mensonge utilisé pour tromper le peuple juif.
C'est un mensonge perpétuel, qui perdure sans relâche, et qui a conduit, il y a quatre-vingts ans, au déplacement du peuple palestinien — un peuple sans défense — hors de sa propre terre. Pire encore : ce peuple continue, jusqu'à ce jour, de subir des souffrances atroces. Qui a inventé ce mensonge ? Et quel peuple « idiot » a bien pu y croire ?
Ce dont j'ai été témoin durant mes cinq années de service au sein de l'armée israélienne est difficile à décrire avec des mots...
Quels mots pourraient décrire la cruauté, l'ignominie et l'horreur des actes commis par l'armée israélienne à l'encontre des Palestiniens ?
Ne croyez pas un mot de ce que raconte ce « sale type » — ce fils de « sale type ». C'est un menteur abject, surtout lorsqu'il qualifie l'armée israélienne d'« armée la plus morale au monde ». Quelle absurdité ! En réalité, c'est l'armée la plus dépravée, la plus cruelle et la plus sauvage qui soit.
Oui, messieurs, je ne supporte plus de voir la ruine et la dévastation à Gaza.
J'ai été témoin de ce qui s'est passé dans la nuit du 7 octobre 2023. Les services de renseignement israéliens, ce « sale type » et sa bande étaient au courant ; ils ont attendu que cela se produise pour justifier la destruction de Gaza et tenter de déplacer sa population...
J'ai servi à Gaza et j'ai vu, de mes propres yeux, un commandant de char s'amuser avec son canon, tirant des obus sur des Palestiniens entassés dans leurs tentes, ou sur des groupes faisant la queue devant des boulangeries, des véhicules de distribution alimentaire ou des convois d'aide humanitaire.
J'ai vu, de mes propres yeux, des avions tirer des projectiles sur des immeubles résidentiels habités, les transformant en amas de décombres sur la tête de leurs occupants...
J'ai vu, de mes propres yeux, des tireurs d'élite de l'armée d'occupation s'amuser à abattre des enfants, des adultes et des femmes qui faisaient la queue pour recevoir de l'aide humanitaire...
C'est de la folie...
De tels crimes, dont j'ai été témoin, ne pourraient se produire nulle part ailleurs dans le monde, si ce n'est sur la terre de Palestine...
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Rogers spent millions calling El Sayed “Palestine First” and nobody flung accusations of hate toward him.
This ad attacking Rogers goes viral and the pro-Israel crowd absolutely loses it (likely because they know its effective).
The hypocrisy is laughable. Go harder.
New @RebellionPac ad dropping in Michigan. We have to suffer here at home, so Israel can get all its wars. That’s why they buy politicians like Mike Rogers. He promised to serve Israel “unconditionally,” but never made that promise to you.
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This is how ethnic cleansing always starts. You have to delegitimize the ethnic minority's claims to equal rights.
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MAGA says Ilhan Omar isn't using her real name.
Melania Trump was born Melanija Knavs.
Ted Cruz was born Rafael Edward Cruz.
JD Vance was born James Donald Bowman.
Nikki Haley was born Nimarata Nikki Randhawa.
Mike Johnson's real first name is James.
Rand Paul is Randal Paul.
Newt Gingrich was born Newton Leroy McPherson.
But suddenly MAGA wants a congressional investigation into names?
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In 2018, The Washington Post ran a piece on where AIPAC came from.
It's worth reading slowly.
Oct. 1953: Israeli forces killed more than 60 civilians in the village of Qibya.
Time reported it.
The New York Times published U.N. findings refuting Israel's lies about it.
Eisenhower froze U.S. aid.
Dulles said so openly.
An ordinary country faces consequences.
This one (Israel) built a machine.
5 months later, the American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs (AZCPA 0was launched. It was later renamed AIPAC.
The Post's own subhead says it "was formed to spin positive PR after Israeli atrocities."
Not to question the atrocity. To manage the fallout.
Then came the model:
... Build a "united front" and treat any dissent as betrayal.
... Operate on the premise that "there was nothing Israel might do that would jeopardize American Jewish support."
... Worse, the article says the more disturbing Israeli behavior got, "the more Israel needed their ardent advocacy."
... Since the late 1970s, steer campaign money toward chosen candidates, creating "a unity that politicians have had to respect."
That last line is the whole story. Politicians learned that crossing this lobby has a price. So they stopped asking hard questions about where American tax dollars and American diplomatic cover go.
That is leverage over American policy, built after a massacre, and sustained for 70 years.
Notice the Post didn't say American Jews are a monolith. It said AIPAC works hard to create the perception of one, and punishes Jews who break from it.
An American public that funds this deserves to know the origin story.
The question isn't "why is this being said now?" It's "why did we stop saying it?"
Aside from the shocking substance of this story, what's amazing is how it was unearthed by Cole. The short version: The Russians were able to penetrate Jared Kushner's iPhone and extract screenshots and data. Then, a Russian intel official was captured by Dutch intelligence (!) and flipped. The Dutch believed Kushner may have been acting on behalf of Russia, so pursued him as an intel target and were able to get into his phone.
They did not find any evidence of Russian collusion, instead they watched him moving hundreds of millions of dollars from slush funds created by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, one of them housed in Israel's central bank.
Incredible reporting, and if Democrats have any sense, they will pull on these threads and learn a lot more about this money.
Explosive story many years in the making, now out in Vanity Fair by Matthew Cole (who will be on Breaking Points next week, and publishing soon in @DropSiteNews):
Saudi Arabia and the UAE set up multi-billion slush funds for Jared Kushner to use.
Iran-Contra 2 here (except with Iran-Contra, at least the US got some hostages released. Not clear what we got out of this one.)


































